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To Catch a Virus.
Title:
To Catch a Virus.
Author:
Booss, John.
ISBN:
9781555818586
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (394 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- About the Authors -- 1 Fear or Terror on Every Countenance: Yellow Fever -- 2 Of Mice and Men: Animal Models of Viral Infection -- 3 Filling the Churchyard with Corpses: Smallpox and the Immune Response -- 4 What Can Be Seen: from Viral Inclusion Bodies to Electron Microscopy -- 5 The Turning Point: Cytopathic Effect in Tissue Culture -- 6 A Torrent of Viral Isolates: the Early Years of Diagnostic Virology -- 7 Imaging Viruses and Tagging Their Antigens -- 8 Immunological Memory: Ingenuity and Serendipity -- 9 To the Barricades: the Molecular Revolution -- Appendix: Chapter Timelines -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
Expert storytellers weave together the science, technological advances, medical urgencies, and human stories that chronicle the development of the field of diagnostic virology.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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